HARPALINvE 179 



the tarsi black. Length (9) 11.0-12.0 mm.; width 4.2-4.8 mm. 

 Texas texanus Schf . 



Body more narrowly oblong-oval, less convex and dull in lustre, the 

 elytra very dull (cf ) and still more densely opaque and often with a 

 feeble greenish tinge (9 ); color deep black, the under surface rather 

 less deep, the antennae slightly obscure, the palpi clearer testaceous 

 throughout; head nearly three-fifths as wide as the prothorax, with 

 well developed and very prominent eyes, the foveae sublinear, very 

 deep and distinct; prothorax one-half wider than long, slightly 

 narrower at base than medially, narrowed anteriorly, the sides sub- 

 evenly and distinctly arcuate and with only moderately coarse 

 elevated beading; apex moderately sinuate, nearly four-fifths as 

 wide as the base, which is transverse, feebly sinuate for a short 

 extent at the middle as a rule, the angles slightly obtuse but scarcely 

 at all rounded, their tips merely very finely blunt; surface impunctate 

 and nearly as in the preceding but dull in lustre, the foveae linear 

 though rather feebly impressed, generally not at all punctured; 

 elvtra rather more than one-half longer than wide, barely visibly 

 wider than the prothorax, sensibly flattened above and unusually 

 rapidly declivous at the sides, parallel, obtusely ogival at apex, the 

 sinus not distinct, vestigial; striae rather fine but deep and abrupt, 

 the scutellar very long; intervals flat or virtually so, the punctures 

 posteriorly as in texanus, except that on the third interval they do 

 not extend anteriorly much beyond apical third; under surface 

 alutaceous, the tarsi as in the preceding species. Length (c? 9 ) 

 9.0-11.0 mm.; width 3.4-4.4 mm. Texas (Austin). Thirteen 

 examples. [Anisodactylus elongatus Chd.] opaculus Lee. 



15 Form narrower and more Harpaliis-like than in any of the preceding, 

 highly polished in both sexes, the elytra (9) not duller, black, the 

 upper surface with feeble though evident greenish-metallic lustre 

 on the elytra and latero-basal parts of the pronotum; under surface 

 black; apical margins of the ventral segments, epipleura and entire 

 legs pale testaceous; antennae not very slender, fusco-testaceous, the 

 two basal joints paler; head nearly three-fifths as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, with moderate though very prominent eyes, the foveae 

 coarse, linear and very deep; prothorax nearly one-half wider than 

 long, subparallel, wider slightly before the middle than at base, the 

 sides rounded anteriorly, straight for a short distance behind the 

 middle, then broadly rounded to the angles, which are right but 

 broadly rounded; apex moderately sinuate, with broadly rounded 

 angles, distinctly narrower than the base, which is broadly and feebly 

 sinuate medially; surface steeply sloping to the unusually fine reflexed 

 edge, which continues fine to behind the middle, where it expands 

 slightly and disappears, the margins with a few punctures posteriorly, 

 the foveae sublinear but shallow and very broadly impressed, coarsely 

 and conspicuously punctured, the broadly convex area thence to 

 the sides impunctate, the stria fine; elytra not (cf ) or evidently (9 ) 

 wider than the prothorax, fully one-half longer than wide, obtusely 

 ogival at apex, the sinus very feeble though evident; striae fine but 

 rather deeply impressed, the scutellar long, coarse and deep; intervals 



